| Spring 2003 T R 10:50-12:05 Maybank 220 |
Professor Myra Seaman Office: 74 George St. , Room 101 Hours: M T R 1:30-2:30; W 1:30-3:30;& by appt Phone: 953-5760 E-mail: seamanm@cofc.edu |
| Week 1 |
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| R 1-9 |
Introduction; “Gentilesse,” “Truth” |
| Week 2 |
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| T 1-14 |
Riverside pp. xv-xxvi (Chaucer’s Life) “Chaucer’s Words unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn,” “The Former Age,” “To Rosemounde” |
| R 1-16 |
Spearing, “Chaucer’s Language” Riverside pp. xxix-xxxiv (Language/Pronunciation – these particular pages only) Consult the following websites to investigate Chaucer’s form of Middle English, and then write up a one-page description of what you discovered, to turn in Tuesday: “The English Language in the Fourteenth Century: The Status of English” |
| Session II: Dream Visions |
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| Week 3 |
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| T 1-21 |
Book of the Duchess (1-721) |
| R 1-23 |
Book of the Duchess (721-1334) |
| Week 4 |
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| T 1-28 |
Parliament of Fowles (1-699) Phillips Chapter 1 |
| Session III: The “Sondry Folk”
of the Canterbury Tales |
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| R 1-30 |
Introduction to Canterbury Tales (Fragment
I): Riverside pp. 3-9 Phillips Chapter 2 General Prologue (ll. 1-330) MEMORIZATION 1 DUE |
| Week 5 |
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| T 2-4 |
General Prologue (ll. 331-858) Patterson lecture Group Report: Merchants and the Professions in Fourteenth-Century England |
| R 2-6 |
Mann, “Introduction,” Chaucer and Medieval
Estates Satire Knight, “The Canterbury Tales” |
| Session IV: Fortune’s Wheel |
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| Week 6 |
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| T 2-11 |
Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy Chaucer, “Fortune” |
| R 2-13 |
EXAM 1 |
| Week 7 |
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| T 2-18 |
Knight’s Tale (ll. 859-2200) Phillips Chapter 3 Group report: The Knight: Myth and Fourteenth-Century Reality |
| W 2-19 |
PAPER 1 DUE |
| R 2-20 |
Knight’s Tale (ll. 2201-3108) |
| Session V: The Quyting Begins |
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| Week 8 |
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| T 2-25 |
Miller’s Prologue and Tale (ll. 3109-3562) Phillips Chapter 4 |
| R 2-27 |
Miller’s Prologue and Tale (ll. 3563-3854) |
| SPRING BREAK |
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| Week 9 |
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| T 3-11 |
Knapp, “Robin the Miller’s Thrifty Work” |
| R 3-13 |
Reeve’s Prologue and Tale Phillips Chapter 5 MEMORIZATION 2 DUE |
| Session VI: Questioning
Marriage, Questioning the Marvelous |
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| Week 10 |
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| T 3-18 |
Introduction to Canterbury Tales (Fragments
II-III): Riverside pp. 9-12 Wife of Bath’s Prologue Phillips Chapter 8 Group report: Medieval Misogyny and Misogamy (esp. Jerome’s Adversus Jovinianum) |
| R 3-20 |
Dinshaw, “’Glose/bele chose’: The Wife
of Bath and Her Glossators” Wife of Bath’s Tale (ll. 857-1264) |
| Week 11 |
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| T 3-25 |
Wife of Bath’s Tale |
| W 3-26 |
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE |
| R 3-27 |
EXAM 2 |
| Week 12 |
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| T 4-1 |
Introduction to Canterbury Tales (Fragments
IV-V): Riverside pp. 12-14 Clerk’s Prologue and Tale Phillips Chapter 10 |
| R 4-3 |
Mann, “Suffering Woman, Suffering God” Group report: The Medieval University |
| Week 13 |
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| T 4-8 |
Franklin’s Prologue and Tale (ll. 709-1624) Phillips Chapter 12 Crane, “Gender and Hierarchy” DRAFTS DUE (only if you would like to receive my comments) |
| Session VII: Escapes and Transformations |
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| R 4-10 |
Introduction to Canterbury Tales (Fragments
VI-X): Riverside pp. 14-22 Nun’s Priest’s Prologue, Tale, and Epilogue Phillips Chapter 19 Group report: Medieval Saints’ Lives |
| Week 14 |
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| T 4-15 |
Physician’s Tale, Pardoner’s Tale, Shipman’s
Tale Phillips Chapters 13-15 |
| R 4-17 |
Second Nun’s Tale; Retraction Phillips Chapter 20 MEMORIZATION 3 DUE |
| Week 15 |
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| T 4-22 |
Last class: Conclusions and preview of final
exam |
| W 4-23 |
PAPER 2 DUE |
| R 5-1 |
8:00 - 11:00 Final
Exam |
